Snooping on the police: can AI clean up the Met? - Raconteur

Shamed and appalled by the brutal murder of Sarah Everard at the hands of a serving officer, the British public demanded a swift response from the Metropolitan Police Service. A subsequent review into the conduct of officers based at Charing Cross in London unearthed a toxic environment where colleagues bonded over jokes about rape, killing black children and beating their wives. Heads had to roll, starting with the former Met Police Service commissioner Dame Cressida Dick. The poor handling of the Everard case did little to assuage conclusions by its own watchdog that the Met is "systematically and institutionally corrupt". Inspector of Constabulary Matt Parr said that the Met had "sometimes behaved in ways that make it appear arrogant, secretive and lethargic" in response to investigations into dirty cops, and that it did "not have the capability to proactively monitor" communications with any effect, "despite repeated warnings from the inspectorate".